Since I don't see any progress on the RSS front...
I can gladly volunteer to help set this up. There are actually some mods that only require copying files and then publishing the link to a rss.php file. I have used one of those before on a forum and it works well. Here it a sample (haven't checked versions):
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=254606
Cheers,
Alex